Hysterical claims by Democrats that President Trump won the election because of “fake news” and hoax articles that circulated on social media have been debunked by a scientific study of the phenomena funded by Stanford University. A number of prominent leftists—including defeated candidate Hillary Clinton, backed by a strong attempt at controlling the narative by the mainstream media—have insisted that people only refused to vote for Hillary because of “fake news” spread about her. Liberals and the legacy media are attempting to use the “fake news” hysteria to seize control of the internet and social media by implementing tools to stifle dissent and suppress opposing views—all based on the claim that Hillary lost because of “fake news” spread about her. But the study, undertaken by professors Hunt Allcott (Associate Professor of Economics at New York University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research) and Matthew Gentzkow (professor of economics at Stanford University), found that nothing distributed on social media affected the results of the presidential election. New Observer reports: Their study, titled “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election,” released in January 2017, investigated the claims that so-called fake news is responsible for handing President [...]
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